I'm officially a Certified Open Water SCUBA Diver!

I have spent the past four days in an intensive Open Water SCUBA certification course. These are pictures from my last day of dive class, on the dive that qualified me to have Open Water certification:

This is me before getting ready to get in the water. The temperature was about 83F and the water was 78F. This is the site, called Las Palomas, where we did our 4th dive:

I broke the mask, which thankfully doesn't disqallify me. :)

Over I go...

And I'm in!

Here are some fish that I saw:
(if the link doesn't work, try copy and pasting it into your address bar)

http://www.reefnews.com/reefnews/photos/kngangel.jpg
http://www.gran-canaria-diving.com/dive-photo/Common/slides/Bluefin%20Damselfish.JPG
http://media.beautifuloceans.com/course1/pic/1.6_High_water_mixing_occurring_on_a_reef_crest_900pix.jpg
http://www.elasmodiver.com/Sharkive%20images/Round-stingray-07.jpg
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=9450&rendTypeId=4
http://www.ukdivers.net/life/rs/trigger%20fish.jpg
http://www.scubatravel.co.uk/maskedbfly.html
http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/OCT05/images/Abudefduf_vaigensis.jpg
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Underwater/Horrors/SpottedSnakeEel.jpg
http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/1/109368/t/733844-Hourglass-Moray-Eel-0.jpg
http://www.advanceddivermagazine.com/PhotoG/tisg/ti0105.jpg
http://www.zerovisibility.co.uk/Gallery/Belize1/images/new_seafan.jpg